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An operating system from the Windows NT family of operating systems from Microsoft, released in 2012 and the successor of Windows 7. Introduced UEFI as a replacement for legacy firmware/BIOS and required computer manufacturers to enable the "secure boot" feature.

Some time ago I installed Ubuntu alongside Win8 and didn't like it quite much but decided to leave it installed.
Now I wanted to delete it and as I've already had problems before uninstalling ubuntu ...

I had windows 8.1 OS when I tried to dual boot it with ubuntu ,accidently I I lost the windows OS but I successfully installed ubuntu ,I needed back windows 8.1 are there any chances of getting back ...

I recently installed Windows 8.1 on my 250GB SDD. I still have my 1TB HDD with an older version of Windows 8.1 and files that I use (like Documents and Games), the 1TB HDD is basically just a files ...

If I install Ubuntu over windows 8, and have a backup restore point or something, is it possible to go back to windows 8? I have a netbook, and it's not quite big enough to dual boot, and I don't want ...

really new to this and obviously made a stupid mistake.. I'm on a laptop and decided to install ubuntu after reading about it. I continue to do so and it installs fine and works but now when I try and ...

I have recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on my laptop alongside Windows 8.1. My laptop came pre-installed with Windows 8, thus it has UEFI instead of BIOS. I have tried booting with secure boot and ...

I've installed Ubuntu 14.04 as a dual boot with Windows 8.1. But my PC directly boots into Ubuntu. That is why I did a boot-repair->recommended repair. But all I got was grub menu with an option to ...

I have setup a dual boot (Windows 8.1, Ubuntu 14.04 with LVM) with the Grub menu having Windows as default, working just fine. However, every time I need to boot again from Ubuntu CD live, it messes ...

So I have a Lenovo Ideapad p3000 laptop and I have followed all the common procedures prescribed to have a dual boot but Windows still boots directly. Grub will not load on my laptop. I have even F12 ...

I am very new to Linux and have come across this error when trying to fix the boot issues. If anyone has any advice or even the answer to my problem, please let me know so I can successfully reboot my ...

I was unable to boot into Ubuntu 14.10 that I recently installed on a 250GB partition on an external hard drive because of some grub errors, so I ran boot-repair, which allowed grub to show up again ...

I dual-boot Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 8 with a shared NTFS storage partition. My dropbox folder is on this shared partition.
First, I notice that whenever I switch back and forth between the two OSes, ...

I started with a pre-installed Windows 8.1 Lenovo with one-key recovery. I dual booted Ubuntu. Then I uninstalled Ubuntu to reinstall again in a better way. I was trying to boot with windows 8 boot ...

I run windows 8.1 and I feel like having a dual boot. Every time I start installing ubuntu, my system does not recognise windows. My partition table is GPT. What should i do to use ubuntu and windows ...

I wanted to uninstall Lubuntu 14.10 (dual-boot with Windows8) so I used EasyBCD 2.2 and deleted the partitions of Lubuntu (I followed a video tutorial for using EasyBCD). But now as I turn the PC on, ...

What I want to do: Have a Ubuntu development VM on Windows 8.1.
Setup: I have a new SSD that I just installed Windows onto. I have an old SSD (60GB) that has Ubuntu on it.
Problem: I am a developer ...

The installation DVD cannot detect my windows installation. When the installation process reaches the point where the existing OS should be detected (win 8.1 in my pc), all I get is the Erase Disc and ...

I'm currently running ubuntu 11.04 on my macbook and I would like to dual boot both ubuntu and windows 8. There are many tutorials on how to install ubuntu while runnung windows 8 but not the other ...

It is dangerous to write on NTFS partition while Windows uses hybrid boot because there is a potential risk of data loss. So I tried to mount Windows 8 partition as read-only in Ubuntu, now I wonder ...

I was running win8. how can i recover my lost data (docs, music basically all my old files). I want to recover all the data because I need to reinstall ubuntu (it does not make any updates and runs ...

So I just made a fresh install of Windows 8.1 and then Ubuntu 14.04.1.
The problem is, that I can't make GRUB as the main boot option, it is not listed in BIOS so my computer just loads into Windows. ...

On my computer I have multiple hard drives. One of them has Ubuntu 14.10 and the other has Windows 8.1. I messed up my boot loader and know only Ubuntu appears in the grub list. Windows 8.1 is on the ...

I have installed ubuntu 14.04 in a dell inspiron laptop. It came pre-installed with windows8 but i have updated it to windows 10 technical preview. I have installed ubuntu in a different partition. ...

I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 onto my HP Envy. It came with Windows 8 from the factory and I erased that partition to run just Ubuntu. Before installing Ubuntu I did not disable quick boot and now ...